Word: akin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Sinclair, is above all else, a psychologist; she is that even before she is a novelist. But in this case her psychology is more akin to pathology than to an interpretation of manners and characters which is the true junction of psychological fiction. Taking a family of six children she follows their careers through the stormy era of adolescence and leaves them stranded desolate on the rocks of approaching middle age. Admittedly the family is neurotic, but disease hardly accounts for the series of catastrophes which these brothers and sisters are made to endure. Drunkenness, seduction and insanity furnish...
...Hawthorne indulged in frivolity sufficient to incur occasional censure from the authorities, behaviour in contrast to his later position as one of the spiritual leaders of literature. In this role he was not of the type of Dickens in the handling of concrete and social questions, but was more akin to Thoreau in looking at life from an individual point of view, and in leading the movement for greater individual freedom...
...University is deplorable. Much of the influence of Harvard University is dependent today upon a strict avoidance of religious creeds and prejudices. Its teachers and its students certainly represent no unanimity of attitude on religious questions. A contribution to the Fund from Harvard University might presuppose something very much akin to such unanimity. Especially unwarrantable would the contribution appear since the Fund is designed to support a Committee Meeting to plant "the religion of Jesus" in India, a meeting "which makes demands upon the intelligence and the abilities of Federation members in excess of any other meeting so far held...
...curse of systematization is to embrace the modern world it could well start with devising a means whereby these former exams might be found in less than an hour's search and under circumstances less akin to a subway rush. As matters stand the end is not worth the energy expended and the lessons of the past remain securely hidden by their supreme disorder from the students of the present. Experience may be a great teacher but her wisdom fails when her schoolbooks remain veiled from seeking eyes...
...roasting of the cocoa bean . . . requires a certain tact which is akin to inspiration...